Over Thar…Somewhere…
If you ask a diverse group
of folks about their individual concepts of “heaven”, you’ll get about as many
different answers as there are people.
You’re apt to hear everything from “Tain’t no such place” to “A beautiful,
perfect existence with God, angels and streets paved with gold”. And of course, many folks are absolutely
positive that the only way you can get there is to closely follow the guidance
provided by their chosen religions. I
guess everybody else is going straight to hell.
Dang, that place is going to be really crowded. However, you might want to just stop by
occasionally to say “Hi”. I understand
drinks are half-price on Thursday nights and that there’s no cover charge for
naked ladies…
Where were we? Oh, yeah.
A lot of what I’ve heard about heaven – where it is, what’s there and
how to get there – hasn’t made a lot of sense to me. So before we get goin’ on my opinions, does
anyone need to take a couple of minutes to step away from this to take a chill
pill? No problem. I’ll wait……………………… …………………………………………………………
Ready now? OK. In
my opinion, there is nothing very mysterious – or even miraculous – about
“heaven”. It’s possibly just another
existence that somehow manages to co-exist smack dab in the middle of our set
of dimensions. It’s sort of like another
set of dimensions with different “physical laws” that is present “here” with us
and all around us. We can’t see it
because we’re stuck with having to live within the physical laws that govern
our existence. Maybe it has something to do with strings and branes and stuff
like that. I dunno… (And no, I didn’t
just pull the “strings and branes” phrase outta my rear. You may look it up if you wish – but it’s not
really important for this discussion.)
What’s there – in heaven
that is? Beats the snot out of me. I haven’t as yet received the video I ordered
from heaven.com so I guess until I do, I’ll just have to wonder – or make up
something that sounds really cool to me personally. Let’s see.
Since my perspective is extremely limited by my present environment –
all of this earth and nature stuff – I guess it’s easiest if I just think of
heaven along the same lines. You know –
with trees, lakes, mountains, animals, birds and all those kinds of things. The folks who live there are probably pretty
cool and some may even be doing things that help keep “the system” aimed in the
right (whatever that is) direction.
Which brings me to the next
step in this little discussion. Who the
heck does live there? Many of us are
comfortable in believing that this is God’s home and there are a bunch of
angels hanging around doing their thing along with the souls of everyone who
has died – provided again of course, that they had followed closely the
precepts of their chosen religion. Let
me back up here for a second to reinforce something. For those of you who totally believe the
concepts of my oversimplified statement, you may be one hundred percent
correct. There is certainly no way for
me with my current limited perspective, to know. As I’ve said before, if you are satisfied
with your beliefs and they are providing you with an enjoyable, fulfilling life
then keep on truckin’. Your path is apparently
working for you so keep following it!
Naturally, my independent
streak has prompted me to make a few small modifications to the conventional
thoughts about the inhabitants of heaven.
I’m sure you’re completely surprised…
First, my opinion of God as
a higher power doesn’t require him to have a home office. He’s just naturally everywhere and a part of
everything – heaven included. If you’d
like to increase your comfort level with this and give him some place to hang
out in the Land Beyond the Great Veil, you may image him into a pad of your
choice. A beach-front condo would be
nice, I think.
The concept of angels as
heavenly dwellers is pretty cool, too. You
know – God’s assistants, messengers, helpers, glad tidings and all that
stuff. They’re apparently always
cheerful and smear positive energy from one end of the system to the
other. I’ve never once heard of one
saying, “Screw you Leroy. Your ass is mine!”
Nah – they would never, never do something like that. And yeah, I think
something sort of like angels may inhabit this “other existence”. We’ll chat
more about these folks in the next spiritual-type article.
How about us – the “dead” us
that is? I know, I’m being silly. If we’re dead – we’re dead and about to be an
active contributor to the local worm cafeteria.
OK, so it depends on what other folks do with our carcass. Maybe we’ll be tucked cozily away in a pretty
little urn somewhere. How special… (Isn’t bone meal good for roses? Just thought I’d ask.)
Am I starting to hear
“yabutts” out there? I thought so. Let me continue. Yes, I think there is a distinct possibility
that “a part of us” (and we’ll just leave it at that for now) can and most
often does, make the great journey (probably less than .0000000000000001
millimeter according to my guestimate) to the “other side”. Can I “prove” this? Of course not. I still don’t have my video from heaven.com,
remember? It just seems like a
reasonable possibility – to me anyway.
We’ll also chat more about this a little later on.
So where’s that leave
us? Let’s see. The place we call “heaven” is possibly just
another existence that coexists with ours.
It may look like this place – it may not. It may have all kinds of critters – it may
not. Maybe it’ll wind up appearing to us
however we think it should look – maybe not.
There will probably be some folks there – maybe even weird old Uncle
Harold. Maybe us too – sometime. We’ll see.
In the meantime, I need to
make some reservations for Thursday night.
I hear that place really gets rockin’…
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